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I agree. But it's a whole other thing whether she'll take them, she has a few books to be read of her own and she might just say that she's too busy to read at the moment. Whenever I take her my thrillers I've read and don't want to keep, she goes 'oh well, but see I already have so many books to read'. And it's like she's got 10 books TBR. I should just tell her how many I have and make her be grateful for getting free books for once! I was already contemplating sending you Chocolat, I'm glad you checked you had it. When I was going through my bookshelf, I also had a couple of "Oh I didn't remember I had this book!" moments It was like Christmas. Kinda. I've given it some thought and I've decided to keep Andy McCoy's Sheriffi McCoy. I'm still pretty sure about all the others, especially the ones of which I've given sure opinions about. But have you read it?

I hope so, coincidentally I just picked the book up a minute ago and searched for my Swedish dictionary Inspired by Sara and I's conversation about Swedish lit I decided to give it a go

Not yet, I've been waiting for the paperback version to come out. I've been trying to search the net for whether there is a paperback edition already but I haven't had any luck with it

It wouldn't make much sense for you to read a Swedish novel in Finnish, would it I envy you, you can read in Swedish, Finnish, English and French, at least!

I think our lecturer chose Lundgren because that book of his is all short, easily readable stories. It was a mandatory Swedish lit class and I guess all the books he chose were short and quite easy to read. I think we had - Min faders hus by Kerstin Norborg (didn't read it) - Ormens v

There were actually a couple of other titles I was considering getting rid of, them being in Swedish. Every year I think I should read more in Swedish but I never really get to it and the Swedish titles are just sitting around. But the titles are pretty good and I think I would like them. These are the ones I'm talking about: - Jan Guillou: Ondskan (the English movie title is Evil) - Peter H

I've not read it yet but I fully intend to. I'll just read it sometime when I'm visiting parents, I hate having borrowed books on my bookshelves. Have you seen the movie? It was on telly a few weeks ago but I missed it, I think it was when I was helping my parents with their move and I had no time to check out what was on TV. I'm really ****** that I missed it, I was really looking forward to it. You, Sara, might actually help me with a Finnish movie/book title? I don't remember much about it, the movie was on TV on Christmas maybe 3-4 years ago. It's about a Finnish boy who has Swedish or Finnish-Swedish friends, I'm not sure but he maybe lived in Lapland, close to Haparanda? They were young teenagers and I think they realised their backgrounds and families and homes were quite different from each other. Gosh, now that I've written down everything I remember about it I feel like there's no way anyone could recognise the movie/books I tried reading it once and liked it for the most part but just gave up on it for some reason or another. Now the book's been waiting around on my bookshelf for a few years and I never feel like picking it up and I cringe everytime I see it. I have no idea why that is, though.

That's what I'm going to do, and I don't care if Through the Looking Glass is in it as well, I'll borrow it from the library if I must! Maybe AiW will be in the required reading lists in the uni next year and some other uni student will benefit from my joining you in our lovely boat

Okay, here's what I've found so far: - Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (I hate this book, it was a mandatory uni reading, the only reason I haven't chucked it out earlier is that I've underlined it quite heavily but I don't care anymore) - August Strindberg: Red Room (this is a 1001 Books -book but it's in Swedish and I'd rather read it in Finnish) - Sandra Brown: Hello Darkness (this is actually Mum's book, will be giving it back to her) - Kauko R

Thanks Abby! For some reason I hope I will be able to get rid of a lot of books, I really hope to make a dent in the mount TBR As for the reading part, nothing seems to tickle my fancy at the moment. I tried starting Howards End, couldn't enjoy it, then went off to Gloria Naylor's The Women of the Brewster Place but eventhough I liked it, I didn't feel like continuing with it. I just picked up the latest Sookie book and started reading that, but then I discovered I didn't remember anything that had happened in the previous books and didn't even remember all of the characters. I think I need to re-read the whole series before picking up Dead in the Family. Maybe I just need to quit looking for a book to read for a while and just concentrate on the cleanse.

I do cuddle books sometimes, especially in bed to make BF go all jealous, but I've never done cooing I might try it the next time I see BF though, to see his reaction

Oh my, what a good question! To which I don't have a good answer, unfortunately. When I see an English lit section in a secondhand bookshop, I go through all the titles, but that might not be possible in a bookshop where there are English titles only

You are too wise, you are too intuitive... Fine! I'll just have to look for it in the bookshops

Tunn, thanks for the review on The Silver Linings Playbook, it just made its way to my wishlist It sounds like a touching read. Have you had a chance to read Little Hands Clapping by Dan Rhodes yet?

I'm loving CaliLily's new one, verrry pretty!

That's so Rory! Remember when she was so happy that Chris bought her that huge dictionary on 1st season? Although I'm not sure if it was about etymology, it was maybe about when each word came to be used and what the meanings of the word are. One thing that comes to mind is that there are a couple of German words in English that you guys don't have your "own" word for, such as 'dachshund', 'doppelg

That would be a good idea indeed! Thanks Kylie for the back up!

Yes maybe we should discuss it in the culture/language thread because I'm not sure what BF was after with his theory, it's not like our compound word equivalents in English would be so strange and foreign.. I'll have to ask him about that. We could also discuss this next question in the language thread but I'd like to ask it here because people might want to discuss it here as well: What kind of words do you guys look up in the dictionary when and if you do? Do you find a connection between them, them having originated from French or Latin, or what?

I feel really guilty about voting for this book, and not taking any part in the conversation. The book was for me a real disappointment and just seeing the name of this thread in the unread posts is making my mojo want to quit on me

I've never read a French book in Swedish, so I can't really say, but what I can say on the matter is that sometimes some languages are better translated in one particular language than another. I tried reading John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In (L

Don't lose faith just yet. You never know, you might find yourself reading 20 books next month, them being short and not-put-downable Good luck!

I'm kind of excited about it, because it means my TBR will plummet down (as if...) and I'll have more room for books and I'll be able to rearrange them more nicely. At the same time, though, I'm anxious: what if I'll regret giving up some particular book?? How can I be sure of what to take away? I wish I had a booky friend I could discuss each possible candidate with.

Shush Kylie!!! Where's Argyll, Scotland, exatcly? Maybe I'll come and visit you Ooshie... No ulterior motives, I swear!

That might be a reason, you know you have a more 'common' word for something and then the more refined French/Latin-originated (or other) word for it, so I guess you have a lot of synonyms I discussed this with BF and he said it might be because Finnish has so many compound words, but I'm not buying it. I'm sticking to my own theory: the loan words we have in Finnish have been around for so long that we don't even think of them as originally foreign anymore and we know their meanings. You guys on the other hand have so many words that come from French, Latin, maybe German and the likes. Very intriguing

Bookworm, since you love dogs I would definitely recommend reading The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It's a novel about Enzo, one of the most wisest dogs I've ever come across with, and his journey in life with his family. It's written from Enzo's point of view. Here's a link to the thread, I read Ruth's amazing review about it and just had to buy and read the book and I really truly loved it!